Title: Recent innovative advances in telemedicine: standard-based designs for personal health

Authors: I. Martinez, J. Escayola, J.D. Trigo, J. Garcia, M. Martinez-Espronceda, S. Led, L. Serrano

Addresses: Aragon Institute for Engineering Research (I3A/GTC), University of Zaragoza (UZ), c/Maria de Luna, 3, Zaragoza 50018, Spain. ' Aragon Institute for Engineering Research (I3A/GTC), University of Zaragoza (UZ), c/Maria de Luna, 3, Zaragoza 50018, Spain. ' Aragon Institute for Engineering Research (I3A/GTC), University of Zaragoza (UZ), c/Maria de Luna, 3, Zaragoza 50018, Spain. ' Aragon Institute for Engineering Research (I3A/GTC), University of Zaragoza (UZ), c/Maria de Luna, 3, Zaragoza 50018, Spain. ' Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department, Public University of Navarra (UPNA), Campus de Arrosadia s/n, Pamplona 31006, Spain. ' Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department, Public University of Navarra (UPNA), Campus de Arrosadia s/n, Pamplona 31006, Spain. ' Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department, Public University of Navarra (UPNA), Campus de Arrosadia s/n, Pamplona 31006, Spain

Abstract: Recent advances and continuous innovations in Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are bringing new opportunities to biomedical engineering and healthcare applications. Their most interesting advantages are being achieved to interoperability of Medical Devices (MDs) and Personal Health Devices (PHDs), and standard-based design focused to the new paradigm of personal health (p-health). These evolutions imply new medical Use Cases (UCs) and new proposals of p-health solutions based on open and interoperable architectures in order to assure robust implementations guidelines. A key challenge is to provide a standard-based design that can be incorporated in a simple way into patient-oriented solutions and the ISO/IEEE11073 (X73) family of standards is the best-positioned international standard to reach this goal.

Keywords: biomedical engineering; healthcare technology; interoperability; implementation guidelines; ISO/IEEE 11073; medical devices; medical use cases; personal health devices; standards-based design; telemedicine; e-healthcare; electronic healthcare.

DOI: 10.1504/IJBET.2011.039197

International Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Technology, 2011 Vol.5 No.2/3, pp.175 - 194

Published online: 21 Jan 2015 *

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